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liberalitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 01:22 PM
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Bazaar street names with a pattern....
Edited on Mon Jun-20-05 01:22 PM by liberalitch
all of the streets in my grandmothers neighborhood are named after WW1 battles: Somme, Alsace, perone, St mihel, vimy ridge (her street), lens
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commander bunnypants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 01:23 PM
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1. Mine are named after Santa's
reindeer

CB
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RPM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 01:24 PM
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3. are you in Frankenmuth Michigan???
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commander bunnypants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 01:26 PM
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6. Richmond
VA

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RPM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 01:24 PM
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2. we have civil war (union) generals nearby
Meade, Reynolds, Thomas, McPherson

No rebel traitors get such an honor in this town.
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 01:25 PM
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4. I live in the tree streets
Not that weird, I guess. I happen to live on a poisonous tree street.
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Ready4Change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 01:25 PM
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5. There's a developement near me named after Lord of the Rings books
Built in the '60's and 70's, I think. It was a very extensive planned community and various segments are named on themes. One part is named after locations from the Lord of the Rings trilogy of books. Was pretty cool, as when I first encountered this location I was very into medieval recreation battles.
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liberalitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 01:28 PM
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8. That's cool!
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Trigger Hippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 01:26 PM
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7. I used to live
in the Saint Streets area, on St. Mary Blvd., one of about 10 saint-named streets. A friend used to say I lived in the "Holy Land." :)
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liberalitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 01:28 PM
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9. LOL
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1monster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 01:29 PM
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10. A subdivision I know of has several different street name themes.
Edited on Mon Jun-20-05 01:31 PM by 1monster
There are bird names, flower names, royal names (i.e. Queen and Prince), Ivy League names (i.e. Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Loyola, etc.), Planet names, Mythological names, (i.e. Argonaut, Argus, Orchis, etc.), Sea names (i.e. Porpoise, Cowry), and woman's names (Bonita, Miranda).

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dben88 Donating Member (54 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 01:30 PM
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11. grew up in a neighborhood...
with street names with an old west theme (stage coach, hitching post, old post, etc...) strange for eastern massachusetts.
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Shipwack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 02:12 PM
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12. Streets at Seaside Heights NJ
near the beach are (were?) named after Civil War generals. Drove my military history buff friend nuts over who got placed next to whom... ("But they hated each other? Why would they do that!!!?")

There's a development near me here in FL called Diana Shores. I used to think it was named "Dinah Shores" until I noticed the streets were named Apollo, Pluto, etc...
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TimeChaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 02:29 PM
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13. There's a local neighborhood nicknamed "Birdland"
because, obviously, every street is named after a different bird species. Not very odd, but certainly well known in the area.
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 02:35 PM
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14. I used to live in an area with all the streets named after Dickens novels
and characters.

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